Enrollment is now open for pottery wheel classes at Throw & Build, Wallingford’s newest pottery studio, located at 2510 N 45th St, kitty-corner from Dick’s. These six-week, beginner-level courses commence the week of February 24, with sessions available on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings as well as Wednesday afternoons (the Wednesday evening class is already fully booked).

In addition to regular classes, Throw & Build offers monthly memberships which include unlimited scheduled access to the studio, and mentoring catered to each potter’s skill level. Also, single-session, two-hour pottery wheel tryouts and handbuilding workshops are available for those wanting to just …

Did this story’s headline make you click on it? A Trump precinct in Wallingford??? Say it ain’t so!!!

Well, it ain’t.

Last week King County Elections released it’s precinct-level voting data from the November 2024 general election. Precincts are essentially a grouping of registered voters in a radius of a few blocks. If you attended the 2004 (Kerry/Dean/Kucinich), the 2008 (Obama/Hillary), or the 2016 (Hillary/Bernie) Democratic Presidential Caucus, the group you were divided into was your precinct. These are essentially your immediate neighbors. And in Wallingford, your neighbors mostly vote for Democrats.

Wallingford voting for Democrats is no surprise, but …

The building planned at the site of Wallingford’s only field of fenced-off wildflowers, where the storied Guild 45th Theatre once stood, has undergone its final design review.

On October 21, the Seattle Design Review Board met with architects from Clark | Barnes who presented their final draft for the currently unnamed multi-family building at 2115 North 45th Street. This online meeting was a follow-up to an initial design review in February, where the architects presented three designs, none remarkable, but one solidly preferred over the other two. A few recommendations were made by the board to this preferred design and …

Nearly two years after tantalizingly hanging a “COMING SOON” shingle on their chain link fence and hosting a kick-off event, Gasworks Brewing has opened for business at 2401 N Northlake Way.

After a soft launch on July 2, the waterside brewery opened their doors to the public on July 3, just in time for some fantastic weather and the annual party that descends upon Wallingford every Independence Day. While I wasn’t brave enough to battle the crowds on the Fourth, I did sit down for a hazy IPA on their landscaped terrace the following Saturday.

My initial observation is that …

Back by popular demand for its fourth consecutive year, Seattle’s most DIY music festival, Porchfest, will bring the rock, folk, hip hop, punk, and even a little marimba to northern Wallingford (aka Tangletown) on June 15.

Wallingford Porchfest began in the summer of 2021, as Seattle was slowly creeping out of COVID lockdown. We the people were newly vaxxed but still a little wary of indoor crowds, so a group of neighbors opened up their porches to local musicians, providing concert lovers a much needed dose of the live music experience they’d been craving for the previous sixteen months. And …

Twenty months after shutting down due to the demolition of their previous location, Stone Way Cafe will rise again on May 15. The much-beloved cafe’s new space at 3525 Stone Way N is practically across the street from their old spot, whose next incarnation will be a five-story office/retail building. Longer term residents of Wallingford will remember Stone Way Cafe’s new location at the corner of 35th and Stone as the site of Daly’s Paint & Decorating, one of the many light industrial businesses that once graced this now booming corridor.

Walking down Stone on May 2, I noticed …

As reported in the pages of Wallyhood way back in February 2023, Magnolia mainstay Figurehead Brewing was planning an expansion to a new, second location at 3513 Stone Way. The owners had been hoping to open in October 2023, but issues with permitting delayed construction for several months. After some bureaucratic touch-and-go, the long wait is over and the new space will be rolling open their doors to the public on Tuesday, April 16 at 11:00am.

Co-owner Bob Monroe was kind enough to invite me to their soft opening this past Sunday afternoon. The build-out is impressive. The rugged gutted …